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>> It's just that those vowels are on two different levels of intonation (=pitch) <<?? How so?>> But I tend to use long vowels where I shouldn't use them. <<Well, since it's allophonic, it really makes no difference. It might add to the impression of a foreign accent, but...
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I don't think it's called intonation. It's allophonic vowel length: vowel phonemes are realized as longer vowel allophones before voiced consonant phonemes in the coda of a syllable. This is found in all dialects of American English. Some American dialects have some phonemic vowel distinctions...
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Around here: /g@r\{Z/ or /g@r\OZ/
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I see you pronounce "you're", "we're" and you'll diferently than I do. I normally pronounce them as for both of those. I thought that it was "pour" that had the variation. I was surprised that it was "poor", that could be pronounced like you pronounce it. I also assumed that is was...
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>> The vowel is obviously different from the one in "bit" http://cougar.eb.com/soundc11/b/bit00001.wav , don't you think? <<Then I guess it is the tense-lax neutralization thing that occurs in my dialect. I honestly can't hear the difference. To me, they sound exactly identical (the...
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>> I asked a native speaker too, and she said that "How are you?" would be something you say after someone has already asked you "How are you?" So she said "How are you?" is not ok as a general question when you meet someone. <<Hmm. Actually I retract what I said before. The native...
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>> Conservative Received pronunciation used to pronounce r's between words as a flap. <<Conservative Received Pronunciation is the dialect that used to be the standard, formal, educated, upper-class dialect in England. In this dialect, r's between vowels are pronounced sort of like...
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>> If I say "beer" with the vowel in "bit", it sounds very similar to "bear". <<Really??? >> And since my /ɪ/ (IPA) - /I/ (XSAMPA) is very close to /e/ <<Hmm. The "in" in "pit" and the /e/ in "made" sound very different. How can you pronounce them very "close"?
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Hwat for what is the original pronunciation and was the only form used in Middle English. In Modern English, many dialects lost the wine-whine distinction, and began pronouncing words spelled "wh" as simply "w", rather thn "hw". The original, conservative form is still around, and is considered...
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